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For the past three years, Lifespan, the state’s largest health care-services provider, has stressed one thing to its employees: know your numbers. It has nothing to do with sales, output or operating costs, but refers to an attitude that the company states is part of its DNA: health.
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By Michael Persson |
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The images from the 1970s and ’80s of Japan’s car workers standing en masse exercising at the start of their workday are vivid reminders symbolizing the pinnacle of a nation’s economic might and attitude toward employee health and productivity.
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By Michael Persson |
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As a company devoted to play, Hasbro Inc. recognizes the importance of its brand, often doubling down on its well-known board games that are re-branded as movies, DVDs and electronic games. So it is not surprisingly that when Hasbro introduced its Healthy Steps walking routes as part of its wellness program last year, the paths were branded, both inside and outside, with Candyland markers along the way.
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By Richard Asinof
Contributing Writer | 8/13/12 |
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Welcome to Providence Business News’ inaugural Healthiest Employers program special section. In these pages you will find out a little about some of the state’s most enlightened companies, ones that take the needs of the employees very seriously, and as a result, deliver better products and services to their customers.
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By Mark S. Murphy |
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There are a lot of stories in the news these days about Internet-based companies that empower employees with the best technology and support so that innovation comes standard.
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By Victor Paul Alvarez |
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At the offices of Middletown engineering services company Systems Engineering Associates Corp., otherwise known as Sea Corp., hangs what is known as the “bid board.” It is the place where potentially great ideas are judged to see whether the company that provides high-technology support for complex naval electronic and combat systems aboard submarines will break another innovation barrier and go to market.
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By Michael Persson |
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As a leader in local innovation, Social Venture Partners Rhode Island is a company that uses Rhode Island’s size to its benefit.
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By Victor Paul Alvarez |
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When the executive team at Russell Morin Fine Catering began signing exclusive agreements and management contracts with clients, they were looking for a way to survive the recession.
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By John Larrabee
Contributing Writer | 9/24/12 |
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Cranston-based Taco Inc. has a long history of developing new heating and air-conditioning technologies, including such advances as the tankless water heater, zone valves and vertical pumps.
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By John Larrabee
Contributing Writer | 9/24/12 |
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Back in the day, innovation to a bank meant a new toaster for customers opening an account. These days, it’s high-tech or die, as banks give customers up-to-the-nanosecond ways of checking on their money, transferring it around, paying bills and more, all from the comfort of their home or more likely, the palm of their hand.
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By Paul E. Kandarian
CONTRIBUTING WRITER | 9/24/12 |